It is well accepted that contracts are at the crux of every business, and the value delivered by underlying contract management systems can have a direct impact on an organization’s top-line revenues, costs and regulatory compliance (see Brian Wick’s recent post, Contract Center: The Hat-Trick of Business Value).

Yet organizations often treat contracts simply as important legal documents that, once signed, are saved away in shared folders or content repositories (or even in filing cabin...

A “hat-trick” is something good that happens in threes, typically three scores in a single game in hockey, soccer (football for those of you outside the U.S.), and cricket (for those really outside the U.S.). Being a bit of a sports fan, this is the first thing I thought of as OpenText launched our Contract Center today.

Contract Center is a new contract lifecycle management solution that brings together our Process Suite BPM platform with our Content Server ECM system, and wraps those up in a...

I’m really starting to get pumped up for Enterprise Worldthis year. It is being held on November 11th through the 13th at the Swan and Dolphin resort in Orlando, and I am looking forward to spending time with our customers, and sharing our new products and vision for BPM. Besides all the sessions and demos our teams are now preparing for attendees, we have comedian Martin Short scheduled to entertain us on Wednesday morning which will be fantastic. He is one of the funniest men on the planet...